A Kitchener man is recovering in a Detroit hospital after a
bone-marrow transplant that came after a Windsorbased bone marrow
awareness group helped with the donor search.
Dany Mercado, 24, is at the Karmanos Cancer Institute, where he
received the transplant Tuesday.
Ron Giles of the Windsor-based Better World Today Association, which
promotes awareness of bone-marrow donations, said Wednesday that
Mercado needs to find out whether the marrow he received from an
unidentified U.S. donor will help save his life. He was diagnosed
with cancer of the blood and bone marrow five years ago.
Giles’s group got involved last summer, after Mercado’s mother
attended a summer camp in this area to talk to Giles about her son’s
plight. The Better World Today Association organized a bone marrow
registry event in Detroit for Mercado in September, urging people to
sign up for the U.S. National Donor Marrow Program.
OHIP is paying most of the $200,000 cost of the procedure.
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